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Basically, this is a list of places where money can shield you from the riff-raff, even if the riff-raff is still there.

Exactly how I felt when I visited Hollywood. Down the street and around the corner from their prized "Hollywood Walk of Fame" and you'd swear you are in a different part of town.

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Miami, FL is the same way. You have maybe a mile stretch that is "the Strip" in South Beach, and it extends maybe three streets deep from the beach, and just past that is a completely blighted, post-apocalyptic waste-land of a city

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Miami, FL is the same way. You have maybe a mile stretch that is "the Strip" in South Beach, and it extends maybe three streets deep from the beach, and just past that is a completely blighted, post-apocalyptic waste-land of a city

I was driving around a section of town there, and there was literally nobody in sight.. like some sort of eerie ghost town. After a few minutes, a few guys appeared between some buildings and surrounded my car fast, so I sped off onto the nearest highway. It was really bizarre.

Consider yourself lucky that you visited Miami and don't have more holes and alot less blood.....

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Out of the Australian cities, I'd have ranked Melbourne (num. 17) higher than Sydney (num. 9) - however I am a native born Melburnian and so naturally biased (plus I've only spent considerable time living in Melbourne and Canberra). My general impression is that Sydney life is a bit more tightly strung than Melbourne, as well as being the most expensive city in Australia. I don't think they factored in the cost of living into the table; Sydney is wonderful if you can live on the bay but it costs an absolute fortune to do so.

Regarding Canberra (unranked, probably not considered) while it's not the most glamorous city to visit, I find Canberra to be a nice place to live. It's got the benefits of being somewhere between a town and a city combined with the perks of being the capital. It's nice to live in a place where it takes less than twenty minutes to drive into the city centre even from the outskirts rather than an hour and a half.

Let's put it this way - all Australian cities sit in the top 32. Can't complain.